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Careful - cobra

In an effort to see what Ko Lanta has to offer while we are here, Trista and I made our way to some much touted caves. Well, as with much of traveling, we didn't really have any idea what we were getting ourselves into.

The cave entrance was a 30 minute trek up slippery ladders, through streams, while dodging some pretty gnarly looking spikey trees. Our soft-spoken guide, who had obviously done this about 800 times before, was quick to offer his advice on wear to step, what was slippery, and what not to hit your head on all with one or two words. "Careful", "Careful: slippery", "Careful: head", all in his soft-spoken calm tone. While cruising down one of the trails, he slows down and points to the bushes, "Careful: cobra," he says. Sure enough, a 3-foot cobra is just chillin in the grass. Ah, Thailand.

The whole cave experience was something else. We shimmied through narrow openings, crossed slippery 2 log bridges, and just about ate it numerous times. I enjoyed myself quite a bit. I'm sorry to say we can't all say the same. Still, it was just another one of the experiences that make travelling so great and adventurous.

Tuesday October 10 2006

File under: travel, Thailand

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on Tue 10th Oct, 2006 03:32 pm UTC Andrew said:
ahh! cobras!
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on Tue 10th Oct, 2006 04:41 pm UTC per said:
don't worry, chicken curry!
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on Tue 10th Oct, 2006 06:46 pm UTC Saxtor said:
COBRA?! Sounds like a job for G.I. Joe (and associated cliched catchphrases involving massages, dawgs, sandwiches, computers and downloadin')!!
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on Wed 11th Oct, 2006 04:41 am UTC trista said:
no really, it was huge.. like 4 feet... i mean 5... and the tail was like 10 feet long....or was that meters... we were totally chill though, even when it almost attacked.
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